Emulation Fundamentals - Writing A Basic x86 Emulator

In this OALABS Patreon tutorial we will explore how an emulator works by building one ourselves! This is the first part in a five-part tutorial series that can be found on our Patreon here...
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The demo Jupyter Lab note can be found on GitHub here...
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[@mytechnotalent]

Very cool! This will defiantly help get under the hood with writing it like this and help better understand the basics. Great job!

[@anntakamaki1960]

Amazing video, easy explanation! Thanks sir.

[@nunoalexandre6408]

Love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@wetter4293]

23:57 - This is actually a really good point. This may be shallow training, but do you think it's a good idea to find open source emulators for the architecture of choice to get a quick understanding of how it may differ from another given architecture?
Thanks for explaining the purpose of arch-to-arch emulation. I didn't even realize it's practical application till now!
Cheers!

[@OALABS]

Yes this is a good suggestion, I'll link the Unicorn QEMU defs below, but just for some context this is a clip from part 1 of our 5-part series. We always have to strike a balance between useful/concise info here on TH-cam vs. in-depth stuff on Patreon. Part-2 of this series on Patreon is all about Unicorn and we have notes on the JIT and all that stuff. But it wouldn't work in one vid here.... maybe I will release a Part 2 here too? Anyway, if you want to take a look at some of the CPU def stuff github.com/unicorn-engine/unicorn/tree/master/qemu/target (lifted from QEMU). And if you really want to dig in this a great presentation on the JIT www.slideshare.net/RampantJeff/qemu-binary-translation.

[@wetter4293]

@@OALABS Lovely! Thanks for the resources - I'm still very much a noob, but stuff like this makes me excited to get in the field!
Thanks again! :D

[@s187v]

super wideo łysol =D

[@OALABS]

I have no idea what this means but you can have a heart too

[@s187v]

@@OALABS ty kitten :3

[@nguyenhuyclblinedancebuilu7725]

Cảm ơn bạn đã chia sẻ video hay ❤️👍💃🇻🇳

[@tomaszlis993]

I always feel a bit confusion when I hear simulating in software being called emulation. For me emulation is done with the huge cabinets full of FPGAs sold by Mentor/Siemens Veloce or ZeBu Empower.

[@OALABS]

Coming soon... ONLYLabs stimulating software!

[@guilhermesaraiva3846]

you can recommended any book about emulation I am writing my article for my graduate program in computer science and I want to discuss emulation techniques and case study with analysis of how the JVM works, thanks

[@fariadams]

Hey
Can you please do a tut on fix up of base reloc after unpacking a malware please 🙏

[@OALABS]

Already covered this many times... just remove relocations and fix the base base address 🤷‍♂️
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[@fariadams]

Thanks

[@chrizzzly_hh]

Only believing in a technical video when comic sans is used for presentations! great stuff! i guess

[@OALABS]

Comic sans seemed appropriate for a "someone on wikipedia" quote 😆

[@tesses50]

i thought qemu had a user mode emulator qemu-user-(cpuarch like ppc, i386, i686 or x86_64)

[@OALABS]

Yeh but only for linux not windows so pretty much useless for malware analysis

[@mosaabalhaddad3146]

Man ?? Did u Just Called Ghidra G Hydra on Purpose ?

[@OALABS]

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